Jesus – Our Way and Power
Our Christian life is a journey.
While on that journey, we need regular opportunities to recalibrate our progress and direction.
The annual observance of Lent offers us the opportunity to recalibrate. And Jesus gives us the direction.
The direction of Jesus’ life is oriented towards God and humanity. As seen in the three temptations in today’s Gospel, he did not use his power to serve his needs, to control others, or to supplant God.
His life culminated at the cross. There, he gave himself as the sacrifice of love that all humanity might live. There, he offered the sacrificed of perfect obedience to God the Father.
With the power of Christ’s gift of self in the Eucharist, may this Lent help us to recalibrate our Christian life according to how he lived and sacrificed himself for us.
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